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Black women get hit with a lot of stereotypes, especially as it relates to their personalities, which vary at times, but is not in any way abnormal from any other race of people. Many times, Black women get hit with the “angry Black woman” lab ...

I was checking out my social media pages the other day, when I saw that yet another police officer had been shot and killed while on duty. I was devastated, and to be honest, the curious Black man in me had to find out who had killed this latest police of ...

Wow, can you believe that we actually were alive to witness some of the greatest and most decorated Olympians of all time at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio? This past Sunday, August 21, the closing ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics were held. ...

By: Marian Wright Edelman Four little girls were changing into choir robes and chatting in a church restroom preparing for the Youth Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. on September 15, 1963. At 10:22 a.m., a bomb previously ...

By: E. Faye Williams No one in her or his right mind would expect to leave home and not return alive. Those engaged in warfare and in other special circumstances may contradict this; but, under normal conditions, people expect to return home in the same o ...

Black people! How long will you continue to be slaughtered and treated like animals, all because of the color of your skin and be okay with it? Black people! How long will you allow society to view you as a threat, and continue to create false narratives ...

You know, I try to live my life whereby I never deliberately group everyone together or seek to generalize people, but for the most part, as I see it, we live in a nation full of hypocrites. I choose to use the term “hypocrisy,” especially as ...

In 1955, Mamie Till, the grieving mother of Emmett Till, said she wanted the world to see what had been done to her son. Sixty years later, the glass-topped coffin that displayed the mutilated body of the 14-year-old victim of racial hatred is among thous ...